Tabulating machine for bookkeeping purposes



.May 3, 1932- G, TAUscHEK 1,856,445

TABULATING MACHINE FOR BOOKKEEPING' PURPOSES Filed Feb. l0, 1930 E lo l`l ATI-m FW YS Patented May 3, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GUSTAVTA'USCHEK, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA, ASSIGNOR T0 THE TABULATING MACHINECOMPANY, OF ENDICOTT, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION F NEW JERSEY yTAIBULATING- MACHINE FOR IBOOKKEEPING PURPOSES Application led February10, 1930, Serial No. 427,101, .and in .Austria February 17, 1928.

My invention relates to machines for tabulating the indications or dataof cards. In contradistinction to the known tabulating machines whichsuppose a symbolic representation of the letter and number data of thecards by perforations or the like, the devices according to the presentinvention allow the tabulating of the characters provided upon the cardby way of offset printing or photograjhy.

he importance of the machine according to the invention will become mostevident if it is considered that all codes necessary for the symbolicrepresentation of the letters and numbers are dispensed with andtherefore the symbols need not be retranslated again into their sense,which means a simplified construction of the machine. Furthermore, theavailable space of the card may much better be used as all symbols, forinstance, combinations of holes and so on, are omitted which, of course,require much more space than the letters or numbers. j

It is, of course, also evident thatthe tabulating machine according tothe invention may be used in combination with a tabulating machine ofknown construction which, for instance, operates on the basis ofperforations provided in the card. Such a combination 0 may preferablybe used for the purpose of tabulating the letter data by way ofphotography or by way of offset printing, but of tabulating by means ofthe ordinary devices for feeling ofi' the holes, counting and printingmechanism, the number data which as a rule are to be subjected to acalculative interpreting operation, such as an addition or the like, andwhich are replaced or represented by perforated symbols.

The present applicatiion is a continuation in part of my co-pendingapplication Serial No. 338,348, filed February 8, 1929.

The following description is based upon such a combined construction ofthe machine which will be explained in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, in which Fig. 1 illustrates by way of example a perforatedcard used in connection with machines according to the invention; Fig. 2shows a perspective view of a combined machine employ? ing recording byphotography according to ethe invention; Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic viewshowing a modification; and F ig. iis an enlarged view of the webadvancing mechanism shown in Fig. 2.

As may be seen from Fig. 1, the perforated symbols for the number dataare arranged in the upper half of the card, whereas the lower half ofthe card contains the written or printed notes. rEhe card represented inFig. 1 may be used for the transmission of money and shows, forinstance, a card which is usual in bank and post oiiicc services. rlfheinterpretation of the card for bookkeeping purposes requires a repeatedtabulating of the numbers as well as of the letter data, andsimultaneously the number data must be added.

Fig. 2 shows a tabulating machine in which the cards of the type shownin Fig. 1 are adapted to be interpreted and their values recorded.'

By means of an oscillating knife 14 they cards are in this casesuccessively taken off from a pile 13 and are passed by feeding rollers15 underneath an objective 16. As soon as the cardarrives underneath theobjective 16 a powerful source of light 17 becomes effective which, byway of the mirror 18 and a second objective 19, )rejects the image ofthe card upon a part of the paper web 2O which has been made lightsensitive. The card is further advanced and passes underneath thefeelers 21 which are fully il lustrated in the Tauschek Patent 1,617,088and which control the counting andprinting mechanisms of the tabulatingmachine 22. As soon as the printing is effected, the paper web isadvanced. As already mentioned the paper web has a light sensitiveportion which is situated opposite the objective 19 and a portionarranged opposite the printing mechanisms which is not light sensitive.Of course, the light sensitive portion of the paper web is permanentlyenclosed in a light tight cover or casing, so that an exposure can onlybe effected through the objective 19. For the purpose of developing andfixing the exposed portions of the paper web, the latter on its furtherway is passed through ,receptacles containing suitable solutions,whereupon said web finally passes a drying roller.

A further modification of this construction could result in replacingthe type carriers of the tabulating machine 22 by stencil carriers, sothat these data also could be projected upon the paper web which wouldthen completely be made light sensitive.

The paper Web 30 which is Wound around the roller 31 may be advanced bymeans of any suitable mechanism. This mechanism may becomposed of aratchet wheel 32 (Figs. 2 and 4) fixed to the roller shaft, the Wheelbeing engaged by a spring-pressed paWl 33. The latter is oscillatedthrough the'links 34, 35 and lever 36 pivoted at 36 to a fixed part ofthe machine. The lever 36 is oscillated by the crank disk 87, which mayserve also to operate the knife 14.

Fig. 3 illustrates a second mode'of carrying out the inventive idea withthe aid of photography. The card 27 is brought into direct contact withthe light sensitive paper Web 28, whereupon a source of light 29 comesinto action, so that the Written data of the card are copied upon thepaper web.

The construction of the machine according to the present invention may,of course, be altered in accordance With the numerous kinds ofphotographic printing methods, so that the machine may be employed withany and all of these methods.

I claim: v

l. In a t-abulating machine for bookkeeping purposes, in combination anoscillating knife for taking off cards from a pile, feeding mechanismsfor advancing said cards successively through the machine, anautomatically advanced paper Web carried by a platen arranged in a papercarriage provided at the end of the said tabulating machine opposite tothat carrying the said pile of cards, an objective arranged above thepath of movement of said cards, a light source cooperating -With saidobjective, a mirror behind said objective and a second objective be hindsaid mirror and arranged opposite a portion of said paper Web Which hasbeen made light sensitive, said light sensitive portion of the paperbeing, before development, permanently enclosed in' a light tight casingand passed after exposure through receptacles containing suitablesolutions and through drying rollers.

2. In a machine of the class described having a set of printing devicesfor printing on a Web strip and controlled by perforations in recordsanalyzed by analyzing devices, said records having Written matter, meansfor advancing the records singly to said analyzing devices, and aphotographic mechanism arranged to photograph in succession on asensitized portion of said Web the Written matter on said records priorto feeding to the analyzing devices.

3. In a tabulating machine employing perforated records to controlprinting devices to print data on a web sheet, means for feeding recordssingly from a stack to printing controlling devices, a platen arrangedto feed said web strip and a sensitized film portion thereof, aphotographic mechanism arranged to photograph on said film unperforateddata on the records and means for operating the platen and said recordfeeding means in correspondence to photograph on the film theunperforated data on successive records.

4. In a tabulating machine controlled b perforated records to representon a We strip account data, means for feeding records to the accountrepresenting controlling devices, a photographic mechanism arranged inthe path of the records to photograph on a sensitized portion of the Webstrip data other than that represented by perforations, and 285 meansfor shifting said web in increments in correspondence With the recordfeeding` means.

5. In an apparatus for the photographic reproduction of parts ofperforated records comprising Written or printed matter thereon, meansfor feeding records singly along the base of the apparatus to andbeneath a feeding roller, and a photographic mechanism for photographingupon a sensitized film the Written or printed matter when the 96perforations are concealed by said roller.

6. In an apparatus for the photographic reproduction of parts ofperforated records having additional data thereon in the form of legiblecharacters, means for feeding records singly to and beneath a feedingroller, means for photographing upon a film the exposed parts or legiblecharacters of the record While beneath the roller, means for feeding thefilm to space the exposed portions, and means: for stacking thephotographed records.

7. In a machine controlled by perforated records for representingaccount data on a web, means for photographing on another Web printeddata on the records to identify the account data and means for feedingrecords singly from a stack into position for my hand.

GUSTAV TAUSCHEK.

